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Jan 2023 - The lab joins Queen Mary University of London
Congratulations to Agata Kennedy (2nd left) for finishing in the lab. The first PhD student in the Moore group. Agata had a miracle ending to her lab investigations and we look forward to the viva defence.
Last week in the lab for Agata Kennedy
Congratulations to Agata Kennedy (2nd left) for finishing in the lab. The first PhD student in the Moore group. Agata had a miracle ending to her lab investigations and we look forward to the viva defence.
Grant success - Eric Reid Fund for Methodology - July-August 2022
This project aims to establish a new biosensor for detecting a novel antibiotic mechanism of action and will fund a summer school student at the School of Biosciences. Funded by the Biochemical Society.
3rd International Conference for Synthetic Biology for Natural Products, Cancun, Mexico, 16-19th May 2022
Dr Simon Moore and Miss Kameshwari (Kam) Chengan (GCRF PhD student, left image) both gave invited talks on cell-free systems, in the Day 2 theme "Synthetic Biology to Access and Optimize Natural Products", chaired by Professor Michael Burkhart, University of San Diego, California. Hopefully a return fixture for 2024!
Cancun 2022, Kam Chengan presenting
Cancun 2022, conference photo
Grant success - EPSRC funded Future Targeted Healthcare Manufacturing - Aug 2022 - Feb 2023
We are recruiting for a six-month research technician to develop new to nature natural products, designed through synthetic biology, for targeted anti-cancer therapeutics.
Kent-Southampton collaboration meeting - Canterbury, Jan 2022
National Biofilms Innovation Centre sponsored meeting with Dr Ivo Tews and Mr Chris Holes (University of Southampton), who visited University of Kent, with Dr Simon Moore and Dr Anastasios Tsaousis.
Microbial Impacts – Wessex and South Coast Regional Meeting, Southampton, 3rd December 2022
Dr Simon Moore gave a 1 minute ‘Rapid Fire’ Presentation
New arrival - Dr Lakshmeesha Nagappa - September 2021
Lakshmeesha joins us from Bangalore, India, as postdoctoral research assistant, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Lakshmeesha will work on the Streptomyces venezuelae cell-free system and natural product biosynthesis.
Filming for JoVE - 1st November, 2021
Toh M, Chengan K, Hanson T, Freemont PS, Simon J. Moore. A high-yield Streptomyces transcription-translation toolkit for synthetic biology and natural product applications (2021) JoVE 10.3791/63012
A fun (and long) day of filming for Kam!
For more see: www.jove.com/t/63012/a-high-yield-streptomyces-transcription-translation-toolkit-for
A la Turka, Canterbury, Oct 2021
First meal out since the group (Moore and Lawrence) emerged from hiding.
Sep 2020 - Feb 2021 - We return
A difficult time for all, and one where Teams/Zoom meetings were essential. However, from the darkness, embers began to glow in the lab...
Left to right - Sam Jones, Seth Coode, Dr Sarah Blackburn and Agata Lesneiwska
Biosciences group posters, January 2020